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like a beast by violence and savagery, and in
his brute ignorance and ineptitude lives a life of disharmony and
gracelessness.” “That is entirely true,” he
said. “For these two, then, it seems there are two arts which I
would say some god gave to mankind, music and gymnastics for the service of
the high-spirited principle and the love of knowledge in them—not
for the soul and the body except incidentally, but for the harmonious
adjustment of these two principles
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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